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The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2017 Inductees (polygon.com)
Dave Knott writes: The 2017 World Video Game Hall of Fame inductees have been announced. The Hall Of Fame "recognizes individual electronic games of all types -- arcade, console, computer, handheld, and mobile -- that have enjoyed popularity over a sustained period and have exerted influence on the video game industry or on popular culture and society in general." The 2017 inductees are: Donkey Kong, Halo: Combat Evolved, Pokemon Red and Green, and Street Fighter II. These four titles join the inaugural 2015 class, which included Pong, Pac-Man, Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Doom and World of Warcraft, and the 2016 class which included Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda, The Oregon Trail, The Sims, Sonic the Hedgehog and Space Invaders.
What are they and what are their credentials? Whats with all the shitty advertising on slashdot? I went to their site, they dont even have a list of all their games in their 'hall of fame' so you can see if their list is reputable or not.
I always preferred SF2: championship edition to the original. I was never a fan of the new-fangled turbo one nearly so much. That probably has mostly to do with the good arcade near me having a really spiffy championship edition machine.
I always sucked at Zangief, but I love the ending with him.
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If that's in there, then Carmen Sandiego should be, too.
I was surprised to see it was not there either.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
Seriously?
Donkey Kong, Pokemon, and Street Fighter, fine. Classics, each one of them.
But Halo? A half-assed shitty FPS that brought nothing to the genre.
Whoever put this list together doesn't have a slightest idea of how games evolved, probably wasn't even there to see.
Core War should have been in the first batch. It's still light years ahead of anything on the consoles.
Where the F is ocarina of time? This list is not good.
I recently watched the Donkey Kong documentary 'King of Kong', I found new respect for the game, which I found extremely frustrating back in the day.
While I've played the 70s and 80s games in their list, I never got around to picking up Halo or Sonic.
I guess I've got some video game playing to look forward to.
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No Ports of Call? No respect.
Basically this is like the Rock and Roll hall of fame. Every group that was popular and made money or won some award will be inducted, eventually. So what? Next generation doesn't much care about what their parents liked, which is why rap artists are now being inducted even though it's not Rock and Roll.
Same will happen here. They will be inducting crappy smartphone games before too long because the kids have no idea what Zork was and couldn't care less.
Trade Wars needs to be on the list. It was a great game. I just found a place to start playing again after all these years.
Where is Dune II from Westwood Studios? "It was with the release of Dune II from Westwood Studios (1992) that real-time strategy became recognized as a distinct genre of video games".
I can't believe that "Hello Kitty: Island Adventure" isn't on the list. It's like they're not even trying.
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Personally, I'm amazed that it took Donkey Kong three years to make it into the Hall of Fame.
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Any "Hall of Fame" for video games that didn't include Elite in its founding is seriously misguided. Open world, sandbox, 3D, vector graphics. That it's missing Civilization is bad enough, but ignoring the imapct of Elite is practically a criminal act.
There are a lot of games you could argue they should have included instead of the ones that have been added so far, a lot of which have been suggested above. But how did they fail to cash in on the 30th anniversary of Final Fantasy?
Final Fantasy deserves to be on the list in its own right (one of the founding JRPGs, saved Square from bankruptcy, started a huge series with over 130 million sales total, etc) but they also could have used the opportunity to cross-promote with Squenix's own 30th anniversary promotions.
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And Bonnie Ross is on twitter taking credit for it. Mean while her sh!t bag company 343 has had two major flops in the franchise. MCC, which has never fully been fixed and the nightmare that was Halo 5.
Seriously. I mean, if we're talking about games that have truly had an impact, you cannot deny it. I don't really get it, but my kids do, and I can certainly appreciate it for what it is and how popular it has become.
Personally... I have been gaming since gaming began really, although I don't do a lot of it. Some of the games that have made the Hall of Fame I have never played, but recognize them for being important in the world of gaming. I would have rather seen Quake or Half-Life on the list. I spent many many hours playing Quake Mega-TF before 2000, we had a server at the company I worked at. It never got old, and I even made some maps for us to play. It really is the basis for me when it come to multi player FPS. Half-Life is just such a juggernaut when it comes to raising the bar on not only gameplay, but visually.
I just can't get into console gaming anymore, for me the real platform is the PC, and am surprised that Halo made the list.
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You can't have a list of influential games without including Wyatt Derp 2.